Tripurāri: Once Balavanta was very sick when he was dealing with the politicians, and I heard that you said it was because he..., by touching them and associating with them, he accepted some of their sinful reactions.
Prabhupāda: (chuckles) I did not say. (laughter)
Tripurāri: No?
Prabhupāda: But it may be.
Tripurāri: So I was wondering. Sometimes our men on saṅkīrtana, they are shaking hands...
Prabhupāda: But you are saṅkīrtana. You cannot be infected. (break) ...party is infected, then preaching will stop. If doctor is infected, then treatment will stop. Doctor is never infected. They have good precautions. Similarly, when you are engaged in saṅkīrtana, māyā cannot touch. Māyām etāṁ taranti te. (break)
Tripurāri: ...disciples and you accept our karma also. Is that correct?
Prabhupāda: Hmm.
Tripurāri: That is manifest sometimes in disease on your body?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Tripurāri: So our men also are going out and preaching...
Prabhupāda: The overloaded.
Dhīra-kṛṣṇa: When we take your books on the library party to the professors at the universities... (fades out)
Śrutakīrti: This way? Śrīla Prabhupāda, Śrīla Prabhupāda... (break)